exactly there is no reason to install anything to simply view photos on the pc use what is built in as Owbist states in his post. If you need to edit or alter them that is a different issue. You do not have to uninstall the HP product once you have changed the file association it will no longer try to open your pics and it may well be needed for other aspects of your printer, I know all of my hp printers come with it. you can also choose to have your photos open in your browser if you like when you right click on the image and go to choose what to open it with you should have the choice listed there of your browser. here is a link that has pictures with the directions on how to change file associations (I have no idea what this site is but has nice directions) File association

Thanks!!! All of you!! I fixed it. That's why I keep coming back to this site! Owbist I did what you said and I can again open my photos! Thanks again! I'm sure I'll be back when another problem comes along I can't solve without this site!

To ues Benjamin Moores Personal Color Viewer (PCV)/open then click camera on homepage of PCV/choose folder you have saved photo in and click on photo to upload to PCV. Once your photo is uploaded you have to choose the surface area you want to mask, choose a masking tool and mask the surface area, then choose Paint Photo to paint the masked area. To do this: 1.Look in the surface area (rectangles lower left) and click on large rectangle with the word "wall" to set the first surface area to mask. Rectangle now should be green. (note: to add a surface click on the + sign/to name it click on the A, type in name then click on the >>) 2. In the masking tools area move your mouse around the tools and look for the tool that allows you to connect the dots around the surface you have choosen to paint. Click on it. (note: just my personal choice) 3. Now click on photo and mask the area you want to paint by connecting the dots around the area. After you have done this click the masked area to remove the dots so that the masked area is green only without dots. 4.Look in lower right corner of PCV and click on Paint Photo, it will ask if you want to save, click yes. 5.now click a surface in the surface area, click on a color from the paint swatches on right and that surface is now painted that color. (note: once photo is uploaded look at bottom left of PCV to make sure SURFACES/TOOLS are not hidden. If hidden click arrow to show Surfaces/Tools). For HELP look at upper right of PCV.

A lot of people wonder about the visualizers and the swatches you find online in general. It's a really good question. I'm sharing the following because I think it's important to understand the limits of digitized color - virtual color, online color or whatever you wanna call it. The most important thing you need to remember is this: How the paint colors look depends 100% on your device and nothing else. Digital paint colors will look different on each and every monitor, phone, tablet, laptop, etc. The color I see on my computer is not the same as the color you see on yours. Has absolutely nothing to do with color "in" the paint brand's viewers. No effort is made to ensure color accuracy with visualizer programs because the people who design them knows it doesn't matter. Because, again, how you see the paint colors depends on the device your using to view it and nothing else. The color space the visualizers work in is called RGB. In color science terms the RGB color space is ill-defined. Meaning (among other things) that the RGB color space makes no effort to mimic the human visual perception of color - how we see color in real life. Human visual perception is defined by 3 dimensions: hue, value and chroma. The RGB color space lacks TWO of those three; it lacks the dimensions of lightness and chromaticity (colorfulness/grayness). Thus, why the RGB color space is ill-defined. The RGB color space is strictly about lighting up three channels of light (red, green, and blue) to make a bunch of other colors. RGB values don't correlate to paint colors in any way whatsoever. Creating a sense of grayness or color nuance (which is lightness + saturation) digitally in the RGB colors space is very difficult. Because you're trying to "fake" a visual sense of grayness using a combination of red, green and blue channels of light on some kind of a device that is most likely not calibrated properly for displaying color. What all that means is the visualizers, any and all virtual renderings are inspirational at best. No one should mistake online visualizers or swatches for color "tools". The brands that offer a visualizer could be a lot more transparent about how it works, IMO. But the point of the visualizers is not to help the consumer, it's not meant to be a resource for color information. The visualizers are part of a marketing funnel designed to get you in a store to get chips where the staff can sell you paint and supplies.